The club sold out of first phase tickets within a couple of days despite criticism over ticket pricing, with the clash a shoo-in ‘Category A’ match. As has been the case with most sell-out matches at S6 in recent seasons, the lower tier usually reserved for away fans or left unfilled will contain Wednesdayites.
Wednesday have announced 1,500 tickets will be sold in that stand on a priority point basis. The tickets are expected to sell out in rapid order with a total capacity exceeding 30,000 supporters.
At the S2 derby in November in which supporters from both clubs were at the heart of unsavoury incidents, Wednesday supporters in the away end were placed in the lower section of the HE Barnes Bramall Lane stand, with reports of objects being thrown downwards from the upper tier and at least one incident of spitting having been reported.